LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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American
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ralph Waldo Emerson, (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism .
Detailed explanation-2: -Ralph Waldo Emerson, (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. As a boy, his first contact with the non-Western world came by way of the merchandise that bustled across the India Wharf in Boston harbor, a major nexus of the Indo-Chinese trade that flourished in New England after the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-4: -“America is another word for Opportunity, ” he observed. “Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.”